With many schools already contesting playoff games, it will become more difficult the last couple of weeks of this feature to find worthy candidates. However, for this week’s State Football Players of the Week, we found players worthy of more than local recognition, which is one of the goals of this feature, but we also […]
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NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
Biggest changes this week are as a result of Inglewood losing by a large margin to Santa Margarita in the CIF Southern Section D1 playoffs and St. Francis of Mountain View falling in its regular season final. That helps Serra of Gardena to move up three spots plus San Juan Hills and Simi Valley joining...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
There are five new teams inside the top 50 this week, led by new No. 41 St. Bonaventure (Ventura) with Archbishop Riordan of San Francisco back in right behind the Seraphs. Clovis, Serra of San Mateo and La Habra are the other three. This week’s highest risers are all from Orange County — San Clemente,...
Girls BB Records Ready for 2024-25
All of the Cal-Hi Sports state records in girls basketball are updated and ready to go before teams begin playing games later this month to start the 2024-25 season. Here’s a recap of the new additions, led by Class of 2027 phenom Kaleena Smith of Ontario Christian, and a look at those schools moving up […]
OLu Wins CIFSS D1 Flag FB Crown
We also have some info on the other CIF Southern Section girls flag football championships played on Saturday at Fred Kelly Stadium in Orange plus comments from speakers at the first-ever CIFSS press luncheon held the previous Wednesday that was sponsored by the Los Angeles Chargers. We hope you enjoy this free story on Cal-Hi […]
Tough Night For Being 10-0
We were not able to get out to a Friday night game this week, and with many of the state’s top-ranked teams on first round section playoff byes, our focus became the plight of teams that were 10-0 in the regular season that did play in the CIF Southern Section, CIF L.A. City Section and...
Boys BB Records Ready for 2024-25
All of the Cal-Hi Sports state records in boys basketball are updated and ready to go before teams begin playing games later this month to start the 2024-25 season. Here’s a recap of the new additions and a look at the career state scoring record currently held by Sacramento Sheldon’s DeMarcus Nelson. We hope you […]
Medium/Small Schools State FB Ranks
There will be one more set of these rankings next week after the regular season concludes everywhere in the state. Then after that, this feature switches to our CIF regional bowl game championship projections. Final, overall medium/small school rankings then will be done at the end of the season. For medium this week, Cathedral of...
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
We begin with a look at CIF section football records, how to figure them out from every section in the state and we have a difference with one particular section. We then look at the leaders for the regular season in passing, rushing, scoring and receiving and which ones might change with the regular season...
State Football Players of the Week
This week’s honorees include two remarkable kickers, one who kicked his second 50-yard field goal of the season and the other who’s a girl who had game-winning field goal that earned her team a league title. We also have a QB with eight TD passes in a game his team won, 90-46. The six we […]